German Home Towns : : Community, State, and General Estate, 1648–1871 /

German Home Towns : : Community, State, and General Estate, 1648–1871 / / Mack Walker.

German Home Towns is a social biography of the hometown Bürger from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. After his opening chapters on the political, social, and economic basis of town life, Mack Walker traces a painful process of decline that, while occasionally s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Walker, Mack,
MitwirkendeR:
Sheehan, James J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Foreword to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition
  • Introduction
  • Part One. THE HOME TOWNS
  • CHAPTER I. The Incubator
  • CHAPTER II. The Civic Community
  • CHAPTER III. Guilds
  • CHAPTER IV. Walls, Webs, and Citizens
  • Part Two. MEETING WITH THE STATE
  • CHAPTER V. Cameralism and Community
  • CHAPTER VI. Napoleonic Power in Germany
  • CHAPTER VII . Weissenburg, 1780 - 1825
  • CHAPTER VIII. Community Identified
  • Part Three. MEETING WITH THE GENERAL ESTATE
  • CHAPTER IX. Undermining the Walls
  • CHAPTER X. Biedermeier
  • CHAPTER XI. Eighteen Forty-Eight
  • CHAPTER XII. Death and Transfiguration
  • Appendix. THE IMPERIAL TRADES EDICT OF 1731
  • Abbreviations and Citations
  • Index

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